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Although it’s not a new concept, you can’t deny that it is awesome. The Keerbot is a wall drawing robot. By hanging on 2 known-length strings, the Keerbot uses stepper motors to shift from left and right, and move up and down by contracting and letting out string on either side. While moving a pen/marker/drawing aid makes lines of art.

In some of the demos I see the guys working on getting a spray paint fixture to work. That could be more interesting than just dragging a marker. Currently the guys are using vector art, and known CNC utils to generate g-code. Very similar to how one would do laser cutting/CNC/and 3D printing.

Check out a few more pics and video after the break. Also make sure to check out the full lineup of videos and details on keerbot.com.

I guess you never grow out of playing with cardboard boxes. This man sized WALL-E robot just goes to show that you don’t have to spend a lot of money on material just to make a shell for your robots.

The WALL-E robot includes a custom 433Mhz transmitter and receiver which uses Holtek HT12E and HT12D encoder and decoders. Atmega8 and Atmega16 were used to format the data being transmitter. The robot comes to life with the help of motors and pneumatic cylinders.

The soda bottles sure looks hackerish if you ask me. I would like to see more details on the pneumatics used in this project. See more build photos after the break.

Andy had a problem that a lot of us have, we’re ready to move into the future and stream all of our movies (that we legally own of course) to our XBMC media center (or equivalent). But who wants to take the time to rip your entire collection? Not me. So Andy started to rip his and came to the same conclusion.

So he built a robot to automate the boring process of taking a disc from the stack, putting in the drive, taking the disc out of the drive, put it in the finished stack, and repeat. The build uses mostly 3D printed parts and servos. The process is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and a laptop.

While the original source function for this is for ripping DVDs, I don’t see why this couldn’t be adapted to ripping audio CDs, or automated cd burning by inserting cd blanks, or direct-to-cd printers, you know to get that freestyle demo of yours out!

I just want to start out by saying I love this hack. With that out of the way… What we have here is some Raspberry Pi’s and someone’s amazing vision. First off introducing the band. The player piano has been converted to run off of MIDI. The two percussion instruments are solenoids controlled by a Raspberry Pi.

Next we have (I believe) a Raspberry Pi feeding off of the audio coming out of an original NES, and translating the notes into MIDI notes and percussion instructions. There is a slight delay (due to the translation I suppose) and you can see it but it’s not that bad all the time. This all comes together having a nice robotic symphony playing your music while you game on.

I would love to re-create this hack, the percussion stuff seems pretty straight forward, but where am I going to find a player piano at a decent price ?

Michiel has a build log of his mini R2D2 project over at letsmakerobots and its turning out really awesome. I’ve seen the hard core guys who build full scale replicas but never really thought of building a miniature. He’s broken the build out into sections like Dome, Body, Legs, etc.

He doesn’t have the electronics section up but he is using a Raspberry Pi and a Picaxe micro controller. I would guess the Pi handles the main control paths and the Picaxe doing most of the sensor feedback, servos and leds.

Matthew is back making some cool stuff, this time we got frank and his little obstacle avoiding robot. He’s roaming around, looking around, avoiding things. He’s even got some LED’s and plays music! A fun little project to build I’m sure.

Matthew was nice enough to put up his source code in case you want to build something similar.